Product Overview
Chopin Nocturnes - Fazıl Say / Turkish CD 2017
UPC 8692646504640
Made in Turkey
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Label: Ada Müzik
Copyright: (C) 2017 Parlaphone Records Ltd.
Total Length: 69:00
Over the last 25 years, Fazıl Say has firmly established himself as a musician to be reckoned with – as a pianist, director and composer. He is particularly noted for interpretations of Mozart, and it was with a recording of the complete sonatas that he made his debut recording for Warner Classics. Following the release in spring 2017 of 4 Cities with long-time recital partner, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, he now turns to another composer/performer, Frederic Chopin, arguably the greatest of the 19th century.
Parça Listesi / Track list
Despite their unmistakable indebtedness to John Field, Chopin’s Nocturnes remain unique in the literature. As a group, they are without parallel in the works of Mendelssohn, Schumann or Liszt, and even today are considered indispensable for the development of touch in piano-playing. Among the multitude of recordings of these beloved pieces is a new Warner disc by the Turkish pianist Fazıl Say. For what is apparently his first commercial recording of Chopin, Say presents 15 of the canonic 21 Nocturnes in startlingly unconventional readings that raise more questions than they answer.
Frédéric François Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation."
Turkish Summary
Romantik dönemin piyano için yazılmış en güzel parçalarından oluşan Chopin noktürnler, Fazıl Say’ın güçlü yorumu ile bu yaz herkesin ruhuna dokunup, bir suyun naif sakinliği ile dinleyenleri içine alacak. Gece çalınan müzik anlamına gelen bir terim olarak kullanılan noktürnler; yaz gecelerinde insanı hayatın tüm karmaşasından ve yorgunluğundan arındırıp, bir meditasyonun dinginliğine çekecek kadar hisli, duygulu, âhenkli ve güçlü melodilere sahip.
“Hayatımda ilk kez bir Chopin albümü kaydediyorum, çünkü Chopin çalmak ile ilgili belirli fikirlerim vardı. Chopin, piyano müziğinde devrim yaptı, şiirsel olan birçok yeni ses kattı. Chopin’in müziği şiirseldir. Dünya’nın çok zor zamanlarına tanıklık ediyoruz. Fakat, bu müziği çalınca hepsini unutuyorsunuz.”
